·vt To soar into.
II. Tower ·noun High flight; elevation.
III. Tower ·noun A citadel; a fortress; hence, a defense.
IV. Tower ·vi To rise and overtop other objects; to be lofty or very high; hence, to soar.
V. Tower ·noun A headdress of a high or towerlike form, fashionable about the end of the seventeenth century and until 1715; also, any high headdress.
VI. Tower ·noun A mass of building standing alone and insulated, usually higher than its diameter, but when of great size not always of that proportion.
VII. Tower ·noun A projection from a line of wall, as a fortification, for purposes of defense, as a flanker, either or the same height as the curtain wall or higher.
VIII. Tower ·noun A structure appended to a larger edifice for a special purpose, as for a belfry, and then usually high in proportion to its width and to the height of the rest of the edifice; as, a church tower.